The World's Greatest Classic Books: Titles

World's Greatest Classic Books

Titles

Sorted by time period

800 B.C.-999

1000-1599

1600-1849

1850-1899

1900-1934

1935-1970

1600-1849

1600 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S AS YOU LIKE IT	1600 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT	1604 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO
1604 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET	1605 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR	1606 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH
1611 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE TEMPEST	1615 MIGUEL DE CERVANTES’ DON QUIXOTE	1663 JOHN MILTON’S PARADISE LOST
1726 JONATHAN SWIFT’S GULLIVER’S TRAVELS	1749 HENRY FIELDING’S TOM JONES	1759 VOLTAIRE’S CANDIDE
1808 JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE’S FAUST: PARTS I AND II	1813 JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE	1838 CHARLES DICKENS’S OLIVER TWIST
1845 CHARLES DICKENS’S HARD TIMES	1846 HERMAN MELVILLE’S TYPEE	1847 EMILY BRONTE’S WUTHERING HEIGHTS
1847 CHARLOTTE BRONTE’S JANE EYRE

Featured author:

John Milton

Milton was born in London. the son of a wealthy notary. He became a Puritan, and an opponent of the Catholics and of the Stuarts. A famous writer and poet, he visited Italy between 1638 and 1639. It was in 1638 that he would perhaps have met Galileo, a meeting represented in a picture which is the work of Annibale Gatti. Milton was the author of the poem Paradise Lost (1667). He was also an ardent polemicist, a follower of Cromwell, and the latter's foreign language secretary. In 1652 he became completely blind. After the restoration of the Stuarts he suffered considerable persecution. He was financially ruined by the Fire of London in 1666.